cat2 09.pdf - Grosvenor Prints

9660 A Perspective View of Cocos and
Traitor's Islands discovered in the Voyages
to the South Seas.
F. Chesham Sculpt. Engraved for Middleton's
Complete System of Geography. [n.d., c.1777.]
Etching and engraving, 190 x 290mm. 7½ x 11½".
Two pin holes to image. Repaired hole to title area.£70
A European ship's crew is attacked by inhabitants of
Tafahi and Niuatoputapu, two islands of the kingdom
of Tonga.
Plate to Charles Theodore Middleton's 'A new and
complete system of Geography ... Embellished ... with
... copper plates, etc.', London 1777-78.
9757 [Illustrations of the Rock Cut Temples
of India: selected from the best examples
of the different series of caves at Ellora,
Ajunta, Cuttack, Salsette, Karli, and
Mahavellipore.]
[Drawn on Stone by Mr. T.C. Dibdin, from sketches
carefully made on the spot, with the assistance of the
camera-lucida, in the years 1838-9, by James
Fergusson, Esq. London: John Weale. M.DCCC.XLV
[1845].]
Set of 18 tinted lithographs as index page, lacking
frontispiece and titlepage. Disbound, sheets 545 x
370mm. 21½ x 14½". Some light foxing; some sheets
with tatty extremities. £950
All plates inscribed 'From A Sketch By Jas. Fergusson
Esqr. T.C. Dibdin Del & Lith. M & N. Hanhart Imp.
Published By John Weale, 59, High Holborn.' Plates
numbered in upper right.
James Fergusson (1808 - 1886) was a writer upon
architecture and a skilled draughtsman with the camera
lucida. His last visit to India was in 1845, but already,
chiefly between 1835 and 1842, he had made with
remarkable energy the lengthened tours in that country
which are shown in the map in his ‘Picturesque
Illustrations of Ancient Architecture in Hindustan'.
During these tours he prepared the laborious and
accurate measurements and drawings of Indian
buildings which formed the material of his best-known
works. In 1840 he was elected a member of the Royal
Asiatic Society, to which, towards the close of 1843, he
read a paper on ‘The Rock-cut Temples of India,’
published in its ‘Journal,’ vol. viii. The paper led to the
presentation of a memorial from the council of the
society to the court of directors of the East India
Company, in consequence of which, much to
Fergusson's satisfaction, instructions were sent for the
measurement and drawing of the antiquities in the
different presidencies of the country. Fergusson's
power of laborious research, and of systematising the
results of his own accurate observation and the labours
of others, enabled him to invest the historical study of
architecture, particularly Indian architecture, with a
new interest.
Abbey Travel: 467.
9755 Salee, een vermaerde Koopstadt...
Pet Schenk. Amst: C.P. [n.d., c.1702.]
Fine engraving, 215 x 265mm. 8½ x 10½". £180
A maritime battle, one ship in flames, in front of Salé
(from the Berber word asla, meaning "rock"), the twin
city to Rabat, capital of Morocco. It was a selfgoverning
Republic with international trading
influence, situated on the mouth of the Bou Regreg
river on the Atlantic coast.
Engraved and published in Amsterdam by Pieter
Schenk (1660 - 1718/1719). Titles in Dutch, to left, and
Latin.
9754 Tanger, een oude stadt in het
Koningryk van Eez, aen de straet van
Gibraltar...
Pet: Schenk. Amst: C.P. [n.d., c.1702.]
Fine engraving, 215 x 270mm. 8½ x 10½". £220
A panorama with ships in the foreground of Tangier or
Tangiers in northern Morocco. It lies on the North
African coast at the western entrance to the Strait of
Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic
Ocean.
Engraved and published in Amsterdam by Pieter
Schenk (1660 - 1718/1719). Titles in Dutch, to left, and
Latin.
9753 Gigeri, een Koopryk Dorp in
Barbarye...
Pet. Schenk. Amst. C.P. [n.d., c.1702.]
Fine engraving, 215 x 270mm. 8½ x 10½". Waterstain
to margin upper right. £180
A panorama of the coast at Jijel (formerly known as
Djidjelli, Gigeri or Gigery) in northeastern Algeria,
from the Mediterranean Sea. Three ships feature.
Engraved and published in Amsterdam by Pieter
Schenk (1660 - 1718/1719). Titles in Dutch, to left, and
Latin.
9752 Tunis, een sterke verblyfplaets der
zeeroveren...
Pet Schenk. Amsteld. C.P. [n.d., c.1702.]
Fine engraving, 215 x 265mm. 8½ x 10½". Marginal
tear lower left. £170
A panoramic prospect of Tunis, in Tunisia, North
Africa.
Engraved and published in Amsterdam by Pieter
Schenk (1660 - 1718/1719). Titles in Dutch, to left, and
Latin.
9657 A View of the celebrated Great Wall
of China, which divides that Empire from
Tartary, & was originally built to prevent
the Invasions of the Tartars.
G.H. Millar delin. Taylor sculp. [London: A. Hogg,
c.1782.]
Etching and engraving, 215 x 330mm. 8½ x 13". £90
The Great Wall of China is a series of stone and
earthen fortifications in China, built, rebuilt, and
maintained between the 6th century BC and the 16th
century to protect the northern borders of the Chinese
Empire from Xiongnu attacks during the rule of
successive dynasties.